SharePoint Adoption Through Social Collaboration

1. SharePoint Adoption Through Social Collaboration #newsgator @avepoint_inc

2. Today’s Speakers Eric SauveVP, Corporate Development NewsGator @esauve Greg Headley Enterprise Account Executive, NW Region AvePoint @gregheadley

3. Propelling the Future of Productivity

4. SharePoint- Vision vs. Reality

5. Return on Investment Growing Your SharePoint Deployment Enterprise Deployments Line of Business Applications Collaboration Tool More Valuable Content Repository More Complex

6. Evolution of Corporate Intranets – Moving from “What” to “Who” Static Dynamic Information Centric People Centric Are you here?

7. Business Objectives of Any SharePoint Deployment… • High user adoption • SharePoint becomes an integral part of business processes • SharePoint becomes the central repository for the organization’s documents, information and intelligence

8. Be Careful What You Ask For! • High user adoption • More user management and complex, fragmented permissions to manage as inheritance gets broken • SharePoint becomes the central repository • Expensive SQL storage gets eaten up quickly as users upload files and retain versions • Site Collections, Sites, Lists/Libraries need to be created and managed • SharePoint becomes an integral part of the organizations business process • Uptime, reliability and performance become essential • Customizations and advanced integrations grow complex and need a process for QA and development

9. Goal for Today Find ways to drive SharePoint adoption while…. Keeping governance and best practices in mind to manage growth and protect your SharePoint investment

10. Social for the Enterprise Consumer Social Changing Expectations of Corp IT Corporate= Social Business Public = Social Media& Social Networking • Experiences • Recommendations • Connections • Advice • Share • Comment • Review • Projects • Decisions • Issues • Ideas • Proposals • Trainings • Products & Services

11. Core Social Model Profiles Connections Content Events

12. The Business Value of Social • Manage Knowledge & Discover Expertise • Improve Customer • Satisfaction Attract & Retain Talent • Innovate New Products &Services Relationships + Conversations + Activities • Reduce Cycle Times & Time-to-Market • Increase Employee Engagement • Enable Large Scale Transformation Initiatives • Drive Revenue & • Increase Profitability

13. Business Benefits of Social Collaboration Source: NewsGator Client Survey at Annual User Conference

14. On Premise BPOS/SPO Delivery NewsGator Social Sites 2010 Expanding the Social Capabilities of SharePoint Solution Packages Idea Stream News Stream Spotlight Video Stream Mobile Communities Activity Stream Microblogging Social Sites Base Desktop & Email Clients Social Profiles Social Insights LOB Systems CRM ERP HRIS Microsoft SharePoint 2010

15. Supporting Social Initiatives An IT Perspective Social Collaboration Platforms… • Enhance user experience • Provide breakthrough collaboration and productivity • Capitalize on existing investments Now with all this User Generated Content – we need… • Scalable Server, Information, and Storage architecture to support future growth • Responsible content management • Including migration strategies! • Reliable content availability • Efficient management and administration

16. This Is the World We Live In

17. Architecting Enterprise-Wide Information

18. Planning for Findability Information Architecture Considerations As SharePoint grows, content often needs to be restructured. Common examples: • Documents between folders, libraries, and sites • Items between lists and sites • Sites between Site Collections • Promotion and demotion of sites (consolidate or expand)

19. Taxonomy, Classification, Governance How do we classify content? What do we do with it? • “Bottom Up” • Enterprise Keywords • “Top Down” • Managed Metadata • Content types • Workflow? • Approval? • Retention? • Restriction?

20. Enhancing Scalability with DocAve Accommodate global users Quickly expose legacy data into SharePoint Optimize global access with geo-replication Simplify management and compliance with global policy deployment Automate change management Extend SharePoint storage to optimize costs and performance Web Front-End Servers Farm A Farm B Farm C ApplicationServers Cloud Storage Storage Layer File Server Clustered SQL Server

21. Protecting Your Investment Monitor Health and Ensure Global Protection with DocAve Monitor SharePoint’s health globally Protect valuable SharePoint assets • Multiple farms • NewsGator Social Sites • Custom solutions • Workflows • Content • Security structure, • Wikis, blogs, MySites • Metadata Simplify Restore process • Content DB • Search Index • Web Apps • Site Collection • Site • List/Library • Folder • Item/Document • Version • Metadata Social Data Content Customizations • Hive • GAC • Gallery • Site Definition • Solutions • Cust. Features SharePoint Configurations • Central Admin DB • Config DB Externalized Data (BLOB) System Configurations • IIS Metabase • IIS Settings • Web.Config • InetPub Binary File (OS / SharePoint)

22. The Big Picture If you’re just here, you’re really missing out… Or here… … getting tons of business value from social collaboration… Or here… … enjoying simplified SharePoint management and optimized storage… But you should be HERE! Getting the best of all worlds!

23. Q&A #newsgator @avepoint_inc

24. Learn More Eric Sauve VP, Corporate Development NewsGator Technologies esauve@newsgator.com @bkellner Greg HeadleyEnterprise Account Executive AvePoint Greg.Headley@AvePoint.com • Learn more about the AvePoint & NewsGator partnership at http://www.avepoint.com/partners/newsgator/ • Download NewsGator’s 15-day Trial of Social Sites 2010 @ www.newsgator.com • Download DocAve to try for 30 days @ www.avepoint.com/download

25. NewsGator/AvePoint Integration